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Welcome to frontrun.me, the premier site for visualizing Ethereum gas auctions. These gas auctions
are often bids by frontrunners, arbitrageurs, and other programmatic network actors that seek to exploit inefficiencies in on-chain systems,
ultimately profiting miners. On this site, we monitor these behaviors on the network in real-time as these bots compete for block priority
in rapid-fire all-pay auctions*, showing users and mechanism designers the potential
rent-seeking economy created by orderbook inefficiencies on-chain. Timing data is sourced from a global network of
8 nodes peered deeply with Ethereum.*Modern auctions are a special kind of all-pay auction, in which
the winner of the auction pays some constant percentage of their bid; they do not pay full gas, as they do not pay for execution, but they must pay for
attempted execution.

WARNING: THIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION OF THE SITE WITH PRELIMINARY DATA AND KNOWN BUGS. Use at your own risk and follow @projectchicago for announcements on release and more data being added.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. .We would also like to thank NSF CNS-1330599, CNS-1514163, CNS-1564102, and CNS-1704615, ARL W911NF-16-1-0145, and IC3 Industry Partners.Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.